USA / CBS-Hanna Barbera / x20m-e / 1972
Producers/Directors: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Keye Luke, who portrayed the Number One son in Charlie
Chan movies of the 1940s, got the opportunity to at least voice Chan himself in this innocuous cartoon. The Chan clan
consisted of 10 kids of Mr. Chans, with Henry and Stanley
the eldest and generally the leaders of each mystery/search story line involving the family in some American locale. Henry and
Stanley drove a van which could change into various vehicles,
plus they led the family's rock group. Despite his children's often fumbling work, Charlie Chan usually managed to nail
the suspect in each show. Chu-Chu was the family dog.
Except for the characters of Henry and Alan, the show
replaced most of the children's voices immediately as their dialects were judged too thick to be understood by
an Occidental audience. |
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